- Men’s Olympic football final: France 3-5 Spain (aet)
- Mateta penalty forces extra time before Camello double
There will be no home gold medal for France’s footballers at Paris 2024. Instead it was Spain who ended up 5-3 winners of an astonishing men’s final after Sergio Camello scored twice in extra time at the Parc des Princes.
This was a genuinely wild game, an eight-goal, two-hour, see-saw thriller, decorated with brilliant goals, saves, comebacks and an added time VAR equaliser. France will feel unlucky not to have made a long spell of sustained pressure tell. The greatest compliment for Spain’s performance was that it was in its best moments just very Spanish.
Written by Barney Ronay at the Parc des Princes
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/aug/09/football-olympics-paris-france-spain-final under the title “Camello’s extra-time double clinches football gold for Spain against France”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
